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October 26th 2016:Making a Life in Education: Preparing Young Minds for Launch into the Workforce

The business of higher education is a challenging yet rewarding place to make a career and have tremendous impact on thousands of lives. Preparing young minds to successfully enter the workforce and connect them with opportunities requires a relentless laser focus and collaborative team effort, which is the strategic directive adopted by this episode’s guest. In this conversation, we talk about Dr. McMillen’s choice to pursue a career in education, the work he and his team are doing to serve its annual study body of 4,500 and get them productively into the workforce, discuss five trends that a

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Dr. Jeremy McMillen

Dr. Jeremy McMillen joined Grayson College in July 2012. Dr. McMillen is active in state and national higher education initiatives. He serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for United Way of Grayson County and is a board member of Texoma Workforce Solutions and the Texoma Craft Beverage Alliance. He is Immediate Past Chair of the North Texas Community College Consortium. State involvement includes serving on the Executive Committee for the Texas Association of Community Colleges and on the Technical College Leadership Council and Community and Technical College Formula Advisory Committee. Nationally, Dr. McMillen serves on the Commission on Workforce and Economic Development for th